TPDL 2026 - The 30th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

https://tpdl2026.ualg.pt/

22nd to 25th September, 2026

University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, offering an inspiring setting at the intersection of cultural heritage, digital innovation, and the Algarve’s natural environment.



TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference covers the many meanings of the term “digital libraries”, bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields ranging from the LAM (Library, Archive, and Museum) community to Information and Computer Sciences.

TPDL welcomes submissions from researchers, practitioners, and professionals working in digital libraries, data infrastructures, cultural heritage, scholarly communication, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, and related fields. Contributions from interdisciplinary teams and practitioners are particularly encouraged.



Important Dates

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All deadlines are 23:59 (11:59 pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone on the date specified.



Submission deadline: 3rd May, 2026

Notification of acceptance: 29th June, 2026

Camera-ready submission: 19th July, 2026




Topics

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Topics in 2026 include but are not limited to, theories, models, standards, tools, and applications on the following themes:



Information Management

-- FAIR Data and Software

-- Data Lifecycle Management (Create, Store, Share, Reuse)

-- Research Objects: FAIR Digital Objects (FDO), RO-Crate

-- Reproducibility

-- Digital Preservation and Curation

-- Data Integration and Harmonization, Metadata Standards

-- Data Provenance and Documentation

-- Linked Data and Open Data Platforms

-- Data Stewardship and Governance



Monitoring and Assessment of Science

-- Science of Science Studies

-- Scientometrics and Bibliometrics

-- Scholarly Communication Knowledge Graphs

-- Data Citation and Credit Distribution



Knowledge Creation and Dissemination

-- AI and Machine Learning Applications in Digital Libraries

-- Explainable, Responsible, and Trustworthy AI for Digital Libraries

-- Knowledge Organization: Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Thesauri

-- Nanopublications

-- Entity Extraction and Semantic Linking




Digital Libraries as Enablers of Science across Disciplines

-- Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces

-- User Experience and Participation in Digital Libraries

-- Information Visualization and Analytics

-- Interaction Design for Diverse User Groups

-- Digital Libraries in Humanities, Social Sciences, Technical and Engineering Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, …

-- Digital Cultural Heritage



Societal Issues in Digital Libraries

-- Bias in metadata or knowledge organization systems

-- Bias in information access mechanisms

-- Trustworthiness of digital information

-- Business models for Open Access

-- Indigenous Data, Governance, and Sovereignty



Information Retrieval

-- Advanced Search Algorithms and Techniques

-- Data Search and Discovery

-- Semantic Search and Indexing

-- Recommender Systems

-- Computational Linguistics

-- User-Centric Information Retrieval Design

-- Information Retrieval System Evaluation

-- Multimodal and Multilingual Information Access

-- Information Behavior and Interaction



Document Analysis and Recognition

-- Physical and Logical Layout Analysis

-- Historical Document Analysis

-- Document Semantics Extraction

-- Natural Language Processing for Document Analysis




Submissions may address multiple themes; interdisciplinary and cross-cutting contributions are particularly encouraged.




Contribution Types

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*Full Papers (15 pages + unlimited references), presenting high-quality, original research and applied work of relevance to the TPDL community; Published in a Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume and presented as long conference talks.



*Short and Late Breaking Results Papers (8 pages + unlimited references) presenting high-quality, original research or applications that are of relevance to the TPDL community; Published in a Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series and presented as short conference talks.



*Demonstration Papers (8 pages + unlimited references) present high-quality, original research, applications or tools that are of relevance to the TPDL community; Published in a Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series and presented in a dedicated demonstration session.



*Doctoral Consortium Papers (4 pages + unlimited references), presenting ongoing or planned doctoral research relevant to the TPDL community, particularly suitable for early- and mid-stage PhD students seeking feedback and mentoring. Option to publish in a Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, and presented in a dedicated Doctoral Consortium session.




Submission Guidelines

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All submissions should detail their methods and techniques sufficiently to enable replication and reuse. Papers must be in the Springer style (an Overleaf LaTeX template is available).



Every paper must be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=tpdl2026) after selecting the desired TPDL2026 contribution type.

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Submissions that do not comply with the submission guidelines may be rejected without review.



Publication

Full Papers will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Selected Short and Breaking Results Papers, Demonstration Papers and Doctoral Consortium Papers will be published by Springer in Communications in Computer and Information Science series.



Program Chairs

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Andreas Rauber, andreas.rauber@tuwien.ac.at

Laura Hollink, l.hollink@cwi.nl

Simone Marinai, simone.marinai@unifi.it



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